“I am going to recommend this to all 475 of my Facebook friends.”

“Such a great combination of factual and experiential content. Informative and very moving.”

"It’s a rare talent indeed to conceptualize an installation about the blind and create art as appealing to the sighted community as it is to those without sight. But with Common Touch, Teresa Jaynes does just that. It’s a little gem of an exhibition that brings together Jayne’s gorgeous prints and sculpture with historic materials documenting education for the blind in the nineteenth century." ~ Judith Stein, writer and curator

“Humanity has made significant progress! This is a heartening display of compassion ...”

The Students’ Magazine. Philadelphia, 1838.

William Moon, A Simplified Alphabet for the Use of the Blind. England, 1893.

J. C. Wild, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Philadelphia, 1838.

Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind is a multimedia exhibition that looks at historical embossed and raised-letter documents for the visually impaired as a starting point for a multi-sensory exploration of the nature of perception. Inspired by her research in the Library Company’s Michael Zinman Collection of Printing for the Blind, artist-in-residence Teresa Jaynes’s exhibition on display April 4 – October 21, 2016 combines her own original works with historical collections that document the education of the blind in the 19th century.